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3. Learn hence the reason of the gross security of Sinners, under the awakening means of Grace. Though• the word be dispensed never so plainly and solemnly, yet how few are moved at it, or concerne• for themselves after all? And we might wonder that men who have reason in them should be so stupidly senseless, but that the truth in hand may satisfy us: men in their natural state are a company of fools, and brutes, and madmen, that are out of their wits, that do not know, and therefore do not consider; God puts them together, Isa. 1. 3. And he that knows no danger, fears none.

3. Learn hence the reason of the gross security of Sinners, under the awakning means of Grace. Though• the word be dispensed never so plainly and solemnly, yet how few are moved at it, or concerne• for themselves after all? And we might wonder that men who have reason in them should be so stupidly senceless, but that the truth in hand may satisfy us: men in their natural state are a company of fools, and bruits, and madmen, that are out of their wits, that do not know, and therefore do not consider; God puts them together, Isa. 1. 3. And he that knows no danger, fears none.

4. This tells us what a great change is wrought •• Conversion. Among other comparisons used in the word of God to set this forth, one is, the recover• ing of men to their understanding again. Th• mad Prodigal, when God was about to Conve• him, comes to himself,